# Life is too short... **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 24, 2004, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-too-short/270921 "2004-10-24T18:23:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![SolGrundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@SolGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolGrundy)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2004, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-too-short/270921/21 "2004-10-25T07:53:01Z")
…to keep pining away for someone who isn’t returning your feelings in kind. Especially when, in unrelated conversations, he gives you advice like, “Life is too short to keep pining away for someone who isn’t returning your feelings in kind.” I need to have the obsessive crush center of my brain removed. ---
**Author:** ![Keapon\_Laffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e274bd/32.png) [@Keapon\_Laffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Keapon_Laffin)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2004, 9:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-too-short/270921/22 "2004-10-25T09:02:31Z")
To pee on a fire hydrant. :eek: What? I’m just saying. It might be interesting. Hasn’t anyone ever been curious? Stop looking at me like that! ---
**Author:** ![OldBroad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ed655f/32.png) [@OldBroad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldBroad)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2004, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-too-short/270921/23 "2004-10-25T16:57:29Z")
to NOT follow your dreams. When, as **Eve** said, life becomes too long, I don’t want to sit in my wheelchair regretting all the things I should have/could have done but didn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2004, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-too-short/270921/24 "2004-10-25T17:09:10Z")
to not take crazy, insane, wild, wonderful risks. to not love. to deny yourself chocolate. to spend posting on a message board at a computer terminal. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2004, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-too-short/270921/25 "2004-10-25T17:29:12Z")
to witness an orogeny. to live in Kansas. to design parking lots. to sweat the small stuff. ---
**Author:** ![jujuju](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7993a0/32.png) [@jujuju](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jujuju)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2004, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-too-short/270921/26 "2004-10-25T17:48:25Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > to sweat the small stuff. i was told recently to just remember two things: a) don’t sweat the small stuff and b) it’s all small stuff. life is too short: to spend waiting for that perfect situation. live now! ---
**Author:** ![Shrinking\_Violet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@Shrinking\_Violet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shrinking_Violet)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2004, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-too-short/270921/27 "2004-10-25T18:13:19Z")
… to quit smoking. ---
**Author:** ![Tastes\_of\_Chocolate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tastes_of_chocolate/32/3232_2.png) [@Tastes\_of\_Chocolate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tastes_of_Chocolate)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2004, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-too-short/270921/28 "2004-10-25T19:31:43Z")
… to be easily insulted. If it’s my friend, they didn’t mean it that way. If it’s not my friend, why the heck do I care? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-too-short/270921.md?page=1)